Joe Biden, badass

No one needs to hide Joe from the press and the public while he gets a crash course in foreign policy and economic policy. It's a devestating critique without pettiness and family pictures.

This is making the rounds via email. Snopes called the writer, a homemaker in Wasilla, and confirmed that she wrote it as it appears on their site.

It is neither complimentary nor a total slam on Palin, but it does indicate that Palin is not a good money manager- not a good steward at all, and that she is vindictive. Wasilla is still suffering from her years as mayor. Also, she does not appear to have too many solid principles on governing.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp

Who in the press will follow up on this? If this is an accurate portrayal of Palin, she is not anyone I want a heartbeat away.

The social conservative defense of Palin shows why they will never win the culture wars -- they cannot win them because it all comes down to a pragmatic "lesser evil" strategy which undermines any moral authority they might have exerted in the first place. For liberals and secularists, the defense of Palin is pure hypocrisy, an example of selective lenience.

It's a war that conservatives cannot win, but one in which they can inflict tremendous amount of damage while choosing to fight it, by undermining the capability of the country to address the real issues of the national debt, catastrophic climate change, geopolitical competition over resources, and destabilizing military commitments abroad.

Rod, didn't you yourself once say that the Islamists do not have the power to establish the Ummah, but could wreak considerable havoc while trying all the same? I don't see your enthusiasm for Palin leading the country in an all that different direction.

Elizabeth, as I mentioned in a different thread, while that letter and its author are real, neither the letter nor the author mentions that the author and her husband are lifelong Democrats. It takes a bit of Googling to uncover that; Snopes doesn't reveal it, either.

So while it's possible that the letter-writer isn't even remotely influenced by partisanship, it's also possible that she is. And it's apparent that she must be one of the 20% of Alaskans who think Palin didn't do a good job in office, as opposed to the 80% who did.